This research is a comparitive study to create a sustainable, constructive, and optimum model that can contribute to the development of local community. In order to effectively build a governance model in the scope of local community, there must be sp ...
This research is a comparitive study to create a sustainable, constructive, and optimum model that can contribute to the development of local community. In order to effectively build a governance model in the scope of local community, there must be special education services for local residents and decision-making body and institutional strategy to support them. Therefore, we analyzed various documents and data and also conducted on-site inspections. We created a database of countries in the areas of education, health, economy, administration, and so on that led to the growth of local communities in South Korea and other developing countries. We also acquired qualitative interviews of local residents or persons concerned and created a quantitative index to measure development and growth of local communities in developing countries.
Despite high risk of disease and infection, regions of absolute poverty lack health care facilities, labor pool, and medicine to cope with it. Building a disease-control model and health care system are of primary concern to deal with poverty since frequent outbreak of disease aggravates the loss of labor force. Therefore, efforts to prevent disease and to improve levels of health will positively affect labor productivity, employment opportunity, and ultimately income level of local residents. These efforts include the maternal and child health care service and distribution of medical supplies of Holeta, Ethiopia, and securing drinking water, toilet reforming, and sanitary education of Tikapur, Nepal.
The research to create ecological village that can self-support food by organic farming took place under cooperation with local governmental institutions or universities for efficient research progress. To raise agricultural productivity is a very important task in regions of absolute poverty because their economy mainly or solely depend upon agriculture. It is impossible to sustainably foster economy consisting solely of agriculture except for special cases where agricultural environment is exceptional. Hence, we induced to switch their economy to businesses that have potential of rapid productivity and profitability growth and as a result, we implemented crops that grow without commercial fertilizer. Also, securing distribution channels is needed to sell locally produced products on favorable terms. In the long run, the economic structure should break away from retail distribution and cottage industry and develop in a way that occupies a comparative advantage in the international market.
These three detailed assignments share the ultimate purpose to create a reality-based, antipoverty model that is built under precise investigation and accurate measuring indexes and that can contribute to self sustainable local communities. The establishment of local governance, self-support organic farming ecological village, and disease control/health care system must operate mutually in a virtuous circle and in a locally-tailored manner. An amalgamative and compositive research foundation is required for the achievement of these tasks. Therefore, this antipoverty, virtuous-circled, amalgamative, and composite research/development model proves to be continuously helpful to the development of individuals and communities by providing health care service to sustain labor force, creating a self-providing village community, training talented individuals, and securing networks that enable economical production and distribution.
This research, as it is designed to eradicate global poverty, based its fundamental research on Ethiopia and Tanzania from East Africa and Nepal and Cambodia from South East Asia. It made lodgments in Ethiopia of Africa and Nepal of Asia for in-depth research. We surveyed, interviewed, and performed on-site inspections of residents, local community leaders and administrators(local residents as primary model) of absolute poverty regions. On-site inspections were to concretely investigate the realities of poverty in countries of concern and we suggested progress directions for each one of them. (Phase1: Basic investgation of East African countries-Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Kenya, Phase2: In-depth investigation of Asian countries-Nepal and Cambodia- and African countries-Ethiopia and Tanzania). We also systematically investigated, collected, and organized indexes needed for further studies in each detailed assignments by small meetings, between-group meetings, and general meetings in our research institute (teleconference with researchers of interseted nations if needed). Additionally, since this project should progress by local participation and governance, small meetings of social, agricultural, and health care parts, team meetings of different parts, and general meetings took place to discuss research directions and methodologies. We also thoroughly worked for mutual contact and integration of in-advance studies and on-site inspections.